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Tanjong Katong Girls' School 2026 Cut-Off (AL 7-13) — Review & Guide

Tanjong Katong Girls' School review and admission guide. Autonomous. 2026 COP: AL 7-13. P1 ballot data, CCAs, DSA programmes, NSG and SYF results, and nearby housing prices on School Matters SG.

About Tanjong Katong Girls' School

Tanjong Katong Girls' School is a girls' secondary school in Singapore, in the East zone.

It is an autonomous school.

PSLE cut-off points (lower is more competitive) — 2026: AL 7–13. 2025: AL 7–12. 2024: AL 7–13.

It offers 19 CCAs and 10 DSA programmes.

School overview

MOE records TKGS’s establishment in 1953 as Singapore’s first post-war government English-medium girls’ school. It began the Music Elective Programme in 1983, gained autonomous status and moved to Dunman Lane in 1995, and returned there in 2019 following PRIME upgrading at a temporary Bedok South site. Its arts identity therefore predates the current signature programmes. This history helps explain the place of music and community service in the school’s published curriculum; it should not be read as evidence of a particular child’s fit or future results.

The Music Elective Programme is for pupils with passion and aptitude, rather than a general music CCA. TKGS describes four years of in-depth study, encompassing listening, research, performance or composition, with workshops and collaborations. The school’s selection exercise includes an audition, an e-listening test and an interview. The audition calls for two unaccompanied solo pieces on an instrument or voice, totalling no more than five minutes. Interested pupils register through the Sec 1 package after a TKGS placement is confirmed. The page still uses O-Level Higher Music terminology; ask which qualification and assessment framework applies to the incoming cohort.

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Location and contact

  • 20 Dunman Lane, Singapore 439272
  • Nearest MRT: Paya Lebar, Dakota
  • Telephone: 63441593

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